Usually means: Disperse or spread over area.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word scatter:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. scatter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scatter, scatter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scatter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scatter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scatter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scatter, scatter: Wordnik
  7. scatter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scatter: Wiktionary
  9. scatter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scatter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scatter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scatter: Dictionary.com
  13. scatter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scatter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scatter (band), Scatter (physics), Scatter (symbol), Scatter (vector addressing), Scatter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scatter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scatter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scatter: Rhymezone
  19. scatter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scatter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scatter: Free Dictionary
  22. scatter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scatter: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. scatter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scatter: Legal dictionary
  2. scatter: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scatter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. scatter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. scatter: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. scatter, scatter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Scatter: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. Scatter, Scatter: Urban Dictionary
  4. Scatter: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Scatter: Croquet
  2. Scatter: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See scattered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
verb:  (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
verb:  (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
verb:  (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
verb:  (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
verb:  (transitive) To be dispersed upon.
verb:  (transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.
noun:  The act of scattering or dispersing.
noun:  A collection of dispersed objects.

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